Bleak outlook for Gaza

MI chief indicates Strip to become major threat

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By Ryan Jones
May 10, 2006

So much for Western and leftist Israeli hopes of a Jew-free Gaza Strip becoming a model of "Palestinian" prosperity and the foundation stone for lasting peace in the region.

If the assessment of Israel's Military Intelligence chief, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, is anything to go by, Gaza is set to transform from a mere thorn in Israel's side into one of its most serious external threats.

Speaking at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting Tuesday, Yadlin warned that the Hamas rulers of the Palestinian Authority, which since last summer controls 100 percent of the Gaza Strip without interference from Israel, is actively seeking to locally manufacture Katyusha missiles with a range of up to 21 kilometers (13 miles).

In addition to greater range and payload than the Kassam rockets currently employed by "Palestinian" terror groups, Katyusha's also boast improved accuracy, and will enable Gaza-based terrorists to launch more precise strikes on Israeli towns in a wider vicinity, including the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod.

Speeding the transition from the inaccurate homegrown Kassam to the Russian-designed Katyusha is the ease at which internationally-trained terrorist operatives are entering Gaza via its border with Egyptian Sinai, said Yadlin.s

Other weaponry is also streaming in. On Tuesday the Israeli navy reported an interception last week of half-a-ton of high quality explosives that Arab boatmen were trying to smuggle into the Strip.

Israel was assured by the PA, Egypt, the European Union and the United States that its departure from the Gaza-Sinai border would not result in it becoming a gateway for terror. Israel was lied to.

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